building a platform help
building a platform help
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There's lots of crazy clients out there too. Gotta pick them out early. When classmates.com was big, I once had a guy who wanted a clone of the functionality done in 2 weeks... over Christmas.
I also had a guy who wanted to create a "secret confessions" site. He said he'd be rich. He thought he was first to market. I told him numerous sites like that already exist. When I asked how we would monetize he said he'd charge $5 to post your anonymous confession, it's "therapeutic". The other sites are free, btw. He couldn't comprehend why I turned him down.
- why did you turn him down?omg
- Because when people with bad ideas they believe in fail, they can't possible believe it was their fault.ETM
- So then they blame you. And it's just not worth it. Plus it didn't interest me.ETM
- And their could be legal and privacy issues. If someone admits to a crime, and it might be true... and the cops want logs and IP adresses etc.ETM
- IPs and logs etc.ETM